An Exploration into Female Sexuality as found in Late Antique and Early Byzantine Literary Culture

我希望探讨古代晚期和拜占庭早期文学文化中女性性欲和欲望的主题，以创建一个目前不存在的证据语料库。女性性行为的概念，特别是女性同性恋的概念，一直被以前的学术界所忽视和淡化。为了解决这一不足，我提出的论文将允许在更广泛的意义上重新审视女性性行为，使用目前被排除在现代学术叙事之外的深奥资料。通过对早期拜占庭占星学文本的深入阅读，本论文将为拜占庭文学研究开辟一个新的领域，并对女同性恋史学做出重大贡献。

I wish to explore the topic of female sexuality and desire in Late Antique and early Byzantine literary culture to create a corpus of evidence that does not currently exist. The notions of female sexuality, and in particular of female homoeroticism, have been overlooked and downplayed by previous scholarship. In order to address this deficiency, my proposed thesis would allow for a re- examination of female sexuality in a broader sense using esoteric sources currently excluded from the modern scholarly narrative. Through the close reading of Early Byzantine astrological texts, my thesis will both uncover a new area in Byzantine literary studies and form a major contribution to lesbian historiography.